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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
A BarbarOus Fashion.

wish I could persuade you, dear
girls, never to wear q bird on your
hats, nor even bright wing to set off
your rosy cheeks. If you realized how
the cruelty of fashion which trims la
dies, bonnets with song birds is rob-
bing the groves and woods of their
music if you thought of the fact that
in many localities price is set on the
little feathered beauties, that they are
trapped by the thousands, and some
times actually skinned alive that their
plumage may look the richer for yoIr
adornment, you could not wear a bird
at such price.
Once l had a lovely fan of swan, S
down, with robin redbreast mounted
on the center. The robin, stuffed in a
very life-like manner, and with his
little mouth open, seemed just ready to
sing, and, the fan having been gift,
l kept it as a parlor ornament with
some pride.
One day tender-hearted baby girl,
three years old, was looking at my fan,
when suddenly the little lips quivered
1 wondered moment at the grieving
lOOh dllu was Fely uluCl IOuCuCu Whoh
the little one said, "Poor birdie! The
last song came froo there!" pointing
with her tiny finger at the open bill.
When we think what glad, buoy
ant life birds life is, and remember
the sweetness the birds bring to our
homes, the melody they make in the
morning, the sweet haunting vespers
which dream away and faint into ST.
lence in the summer dusk, we can not
feel happy in rejecting that for ca
price of fashion the song birds are
murdered by wholesale.
Do not forget that you, as an indi-
vidual, Kate, Allie, Grace, Belle, EN-
ilie, can do something to make this
barbarous style thing of the past:
Refuse to adorn yourself with dead
bird. The power of the unit is never
more visably shown than in quiet
persistence in doing right and making
a wrong unpopular. If girls decide
against it, this style of cruelty will
cease to be profitable.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
How Long Should I Stay In Sunday
Scb0Ol2

This is the question a young man of
eighteen asks us.
AS longas you can learn anything or
help others to learn.
You can learn something as long as
you can find Bible class. The study
of the Bible takes in every thing else
history, poetry, biography, travels. hu-
man nature; and Is never finished. I
have been studying it all my life, and
find it more interesting than anything
else. .-.
Sometimes young men stay too long
in one class. The teacher goes over
the same ground, or most of the schol-
ars are younger than he, and the teach
ing is not up to his grade. Then he
should 60 into Bible class, or change
from one to another.
Besides, any intelligent young man
or woman should expect to become q
teacher.
Would you be so ungrateful as to
wish to make no return for all the
pleasure and profit you have lad from
the Sunday-school? !. How is the school
to be kept going?
Stay in the school till you die.
Graduate from the Bible class into
teaching. You will be happier, better,
more useful, and you will know q
great deal more of Gods word and
many other things all your life than if
you give it up.
IF you have brothers younger than
yourself, you should remain for their
sakes. Don't you see that?
We have noticed that the young
men of eighteen or thereabouts who
leave the Sunday-school get into loose
notions about the Sabbath and often
into undesirable company. Those
who remain generally become workers
in the Church, and form associations
with other young men Of like mood
and often with most desirable young
ladies, the best Of whom are almost al
ways in Sunday-school till they marry,
and often long after.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
Sham in the Sabbath School.

DR.. Vincent in Word and Work put
it strongly thus:
Zone other aspect of the case shows
how serious are the perils of the sun,
day school. We are SCHOOL," and
profess to "teach." In nunlberless
cases there is no teaching at all. We
call it teaching. We 60 through forms
Of asking and answering questions
Put every grammar school boy In the
room knows that such teaching and
answering and reviewing could never
he accepted in his day school. The
contrast between real study and recita'
ton and sham study and recitation Is
forced upon his attention.; ana the
sham work is in Gods house, on GODS
day, by Gods servants, with GODS
Word rs the textbook. This is q
strong putting Of the case. But where
it is to any considerable degree true OF
a class or of school, it will explain
MANY problem. Such falsity is like
q breath of noXious poison OH q deli
cate flower. How can there be rever-
ence. or even respect, for religion
among children whose teachers and
superintendents are guilty of such su-
perficiaiity and pretence in the very
process of religious instruction
Let us be religious enough in Sunday
school to be honest and thorough In
all we do attempt"
The other side, and how about this?
A faithful teacher, not the writer, pre-
pares with care the lesson for one Sun
day after another, meets the class
punctually and regularly, teaches with
tact and diligence-yet what is the re-
suit? AS regularly as the hour arrives
the pupils open the "helps" now used
in all schools, and read therefrom, per-
functorily, the answers as printed or
suggested. The old inquiry arises to
the teachers lips, "Why do you not
prepare the lesson ?" but the lips re-
main closed. The answer is already
anticipated: ave are busy all the
week, and aUe don't come to Sunday
school to study" In the greater num-
Der of classes in our Sunday schools it
is to be feared the tacit understanding
is that the teacher shall prepare the
lesson and teach it to the class. How
many teachers of colder pupils' find
this to be their own experience? And
the juvenile majority in our schools
what shall be said of them? A few
bright children of active minds pre-
pare the lessons. the remainder, not
moved by the incentives used to stim-
ulate their inactivity in day schools,
revel in the delights of reciting ?
without fear of loss of distinction or
punishment.
1t is impossible? to grade and con-
troll Sunday school as we do our day
school. Too many parents are glad of
a seventh day respite from "helping"
their children in the preparation of
weekday lessons-to add another bur-
den is more than they will bear, and
the young people are usually left to
themselves in learning their Sunday
school lessons. IF the rigid demands
of day schools were introduced into
these others, at least half the pupils,
we think, would desert-like the class
we mention, they don't come to Sun
day school to stuoy.'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

Mrs. Roxalana Druse, who killed
her husband and then cut his body to
pieces and burnt it, was hanged at
Herkimer, N. Y, yesterday. The ex-
ecution was private, and though the
town was full Of people there was no
excitement.-Erchange.
This is horrible-both the deed OF
the woman and the penalty inflicted.
Any thing that tends to the destruc-
ton of human life should beabhorred.
Whatever the crime, the hanging Of a
woman is revolving in the extreme.
Something else, anything else, before
that.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

LIME FOR INSECTS. is dis.
tasteful to almost all insects, especial
ly when in a dry, fine, acrid powder,
as when air-slaked. It is thus of
great benefit used as top dressing on
all soils and for all crops, especially in
the garden. Melon flies and beetles,
cabbage flies, currant worms, the cab
bage-root worm, and many of the 9TH
er annoying pests of the garden, are
kept in subjection by fine air-slaked
lime.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

Many one is at great expense of
pains and money to learn the art of
speaking; the Christian has enough
to do in the school of the Holy Spirit
and the cross to learn to hold his
tongue.
True politeness is perfect ease and
freedom. It consists simply in treat
ing others as you like to be treated
yourself.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
SCHOOLS.
Steam Hatched Chicks.
BY CORA A. d. wYCKoFF.

A hundred little chicks or more,
Downy, soft and yellow, ..
We're piping out their discomfort
In voices far from mellow. ...
looked around in wonderment;
No mothers were at hand
To gather meath their outstretched wings
The doleful little band. .-- .
And, as gazed, a small wee voice
From one chick seemed to say:
perhaps you think We like 1t
This fine new-fangled way;
But Its very dlsagreeable,
For, strange as 1t may seem,
We never had q mother -
They hatched us out by steam;
"And they call us happy orphans
When we're ready all to weep,
For no answering cluck comes back to Us,
Though we peep, and peep, and peep.
They say its scientific,
And I've no doubt its true;
But I'd rather have q mother
Now, really, wouldn't your
fHarper's Young People,.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

While the taxes on the citizens oi
Columbia are heavy, few taxpayers
we imagine, would object to paying
for an arteSian aveU. This would be
truly public benefit to the horses as
well as the people.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

The creed of President Cleveland is
said to be: "While the people should
support the government, the govern
ment should not support the people.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16
Presiding Elder A. J. Stokes write

Preslulng EIuer a. j. otohes "'I'e%
of Marion District, March 4:
The work of the church is progress
ing finely over this side. The preach
er and people are in favor one with
the other. There is no better field o.
usefulness than may be found in this
territory. I thank God for such al
opportunity to do good.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

The "Old Folks" as we'll as the
"Youug Ones" should read "Schools."
In Schools there are teachers as well
as learners.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-16

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, March
6, is reported hopelessly ill-sinking.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19

Young Housekeeper's Course-The fol
lowing course of six lessons will be giver
on Tuesday and Friday mornings at $50 a.
n. Terms for the course. 50. Miss Dodg.
will be at the room from 10 to IL a. IN. and
from to p. III. TO give further informa.
ton.
Lesson Bread, Rolls, Fish Balls and
Coffee.
Lesson Tomato Soup. Broled Steak,
Croutons, Cream Potatoes and Omelet
Lesson S-Potato Croquettes. Hominy
and Corn Meal Gems, Macaron and 1oma-
to Sauce.
Lesson Com Mullins. how to use Cold
Meats, Plain Paste and Lemon Pie.
Lesson 5-Scalloped Fish, Lettuce Salad
with Boiled Dressing Pine Apple Sherbet,
Caramel Custard.
Lesson 6-Roast Beef, Nermcelli Soup,
Cabinet Pudding, FOamy Sauce.
There is such demand for cooks
course that Miss Dodge has decided to have
cooks class. which will meet Thursday
and Friday afternoons at $50. The pro-
gramme will be the same as in the young
housekeeper'S course, six lessons for 81.
Apply at room No. 1. Blacks opera house
from 10 to II a. IN. and from TO p. III.
for further information.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19
IDENfl MEN IND MIIDENS.

! Our discussion of the relations between
young men and matrimony. has attracted
a good deal of attention. both locally and
outside of the city limits. and not little
newspaper comment Young ladies as well
as bachelors have been aroused 10 thought
aud inquiry. and of the thousand young
men in this city who ought to marry. We
doubt not that scores have already decided
10 do their duty-at least. to the extent of
popping the question. But alas, There
comes the rub. A young man can pep and
pop. and yet remain single and forlorn
Therefore, they should pop wisely and eau
tiously. For maidens, however kind and
good. are yet-simply because they are
maidens-''coy and hard to please now. as
they were in the days of the great wizard
of the north, Sir Walter Scott.
Nevertheless, maidens are won. daily by
stout-hearted young men of taste. spirit.
and nerve. and whatever may be the result.
il is the privilege and duty of every honest,
clean young man, of industrious habits. to
select an honest young woman and try to
win her. If he fail, the fault will not be
his, and he can console himself with the re-
Election that he has acted the part of man,
a gentleman and good citizen.
We print below. with much satisfaction.
an editorial in which this general topic is.
in part, treated practically and sensibly,
which We clip from the Toledo Blade
The newspaper paragraphs. the column
articles, even the books which are written.
to show the reason why so many young
men remain bachelors is because girls are
so eXtravagant in their tastes that il is ini-
possible TO provide such homes and living
as they demand. can not be counted A great
deal of this is the verieSt bosh. 1t is the ex-
ception rather than the rule for young man
to remain single. if he wants to marry.
He thinks if the girl OF his neart is willing
to go with him, they can rub along some
how, and many tunes it proves to be the !
severest kind of rubbing. Ii young man
falls in love and don't marry. set it down |
that he didn't want to give up his free. |
easy-going, independent life; to deny him |
self his wine and cigars; to be obliged to |
think for somebody else besides himself: i'm |
short. to assume the burdens and RESPONSE
bilities of family man. The girl he
thinks he loves need not worry over his
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19

Judge Van Brant. of New York. has
pronounced the charter of the Broadway
Arcade Railway company. New York. in
which our Mr.. Jerome Fassler is largely iu-
terested, to be constitutional. The company
proposes to construct four tracks under
Broadway. from the Battery 10 Harlem
bridge. the tracks to be twenty feet under
ground, one Oh either side for local trains.
and two in the center for express trains. The
roads will be equipped with all the most mod
ern contrivanceS, including those yet to be
produced by the best inventive genius
of the country. There will be rapid
transit for long distance travel; slower
trains for short distance travel: freight
trains for general merchandise: mail and
express trains for rapid delivery. and am
pie accommodates for through trains BY
existing roads. or tunnels to be constructed
under the rivers. The decision of Judge
Van Brunt may be appealed and il may re-
quire decision from the court OF appeals
to finally determine whether property own
ers have the right to prevent the use of a
street underground in front OF their prop
erty
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19
THE S.iTERD REpI-RLIE.

The Illustrated Christian Weekly, pub
| lished in New York, by the American Tract
Society, says, in its issue for February 18th:
! We recently noted the encouraging fact
that the REPUBLIC, the enterpriSlng daily
OF Springfield. o., had suspended its Sun
/ day paper from the conviction, based upon
the experience and observation of its own
ers. that Sunday should he observed as a
day of worship As well as rest. We are
glad TO see that it is not to stand alone
among the papers Of the Buckeye State
| that will observe the day of rest. Its issue
of last Saturday brings the cheering an
nouncement that the Timcs-.StGr of Gin
cinnati has also given up its Sunday edition,
the special features of which it will trans
! fer 10 its Saturday evening edition. This is
the plan so successfully adopted BY the
| Erening Post and the Nal and Express of
this city. whose Saturday evening editions
are prepared with unusual care and attract
! iveneSs and have a larger circulation than
their other issues. showing the appreciation
| of the best class of readers. We Sympa-
| thiZe with our Springfield contemporary in
| its qualification. and hope that il will have
the pleasure of chronicling many other re-
cruits to its upright standard. 1t says:
The KErUTLIC feels highly hpnored
and greatly encouraged in the fact that 50
good and prosperous paper As the Times
Star. enjoying such keen business man
agement. should SO soon follow its example
in suspendng its Sunday issue"
The CongregatiOnGlist. of Boston, in its
issue of February I7th. speaks of the same
thing as follows:
Only few weeks since we were reiOiced
to learn that the Sunday edition of the
lGIoBE-REPUBLIC of Springfield. u. was
discontinued. We now share in the joy of
| the REPUBLIC in learning that its excellent
example has been followed by the Times
Star of Cincinnati. which announced. Feb
ruary 1. that its Sunday issue will he no
longer published. We wish these exam
and prove the beginning of the end of
Sunday newspapers.
And the New York Mail and Express
comments on the Christian week.-Mrs. article
as follows:
Our esteemed religious contemporary, the
illustrated Christian WceLIu. alludes to
the suspension. by the Springfield. Ohio.
REPUBLIC, of its Sunday morning issue and
the substitution therefor of Saturday
evening edition. The Christian Weeklll
adds that the success of this experiment,
has been assured by the success of ''the
Mail aud Express of this city, whose Sat
urday evening editions are prepared with
unusual care and attractiveness and have a
larger circulation than their other issues.
showing the appreciation of the best class
of readers"
| And the Akron Beacon has its say. as
below and what IL saws nf tho ,pi,u,S- ~,
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19

We find the following in the Turf, Field
and Farm, New York, of which paper Mr..
Hamilton Busbey, formerly of the RErUB-
Lie. is the editor:
Mr.. Joseph Harker, who bought Maud
s., when she was only four years old. for
the late William II. Vanderbilt. has Just
offered Mr.. Bonner. on behalf of a gentle
man of large wealth. 500. 900 in cash for
the queen. Mr.. Bonner paid Mr.. Wander
bilt $40, 900 for Maud s.: but she was lame
the day she was delivered at Mr.. Bonner
stable. Mr.. b., however. shod her so as to
relieve her of her lameness. and since then
she has twice beaten her record, having
lowered it to 2:0S24. New he is offered
$780, 900 for the peerless mare, SO that he
would make 5000 profit if he should dis
pose of her-a pretty large sum for shoeing
horse. But Mr.. Bonner refuses to sell
Maud S. at any price.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19

Pleasant and profitable employment
surely awaits wike-awake salesman who
will supply the demand. in this vicinity.
for the New Reversible flap of the United
States and Canada and Pictorial Map OF
the World. 1887, issued by the renowned
map publishers. Rand, McNally & Co,
l4s-l54 Monroe street. Chicago. A Rail-
road and County map of the United States
and Canada. with the greater portion of
the Republic of Mexico; tne representa-
ton of Bartholdi's Liberty Enlightening
the World" and the divisions of standard
railway time, are shown on the face of the
may. Onthe pictorial side are separate
colored maps OF the World, Europe. Asia,
North America, South America and Mexico.
Also select engravings. diagrams and statis-
teal tables
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19

We are in receipt of an interesting and
instructive pamphlet of seventy pages.
entitled. History and Work of the War
ner Observatory" Vol. l, by the director.
Lewis Swift, Ph. D., the well known AS
tronomer of Rochester. y. Y. Its contents
show the advance OF the science OF astron-
omy in this country, under the impetus c,
money wisely bestowed in prize giving for
original discovery, as has been done by the
founder of this observatory. Mr.. II. II.
Warner, of safe cure fame. Under the
stimulus of his astronomical prizes. more
than three times as many comets have been
discovered in this country as in all the rest
of the world combined. The Warner OBJ
servatory. though a strictly private institu-
ton. is open TO visitors free of charge, two
evenings of each week. and among its Wis
itors includes people from all parts of the
world. Its great telescope cost $4,000.
and the observatory and dwellings $780,
900, making it one of the mos: costly and
complete, as it promises TO be one of the
most active and important, obseryatOries of
this age
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19

We view with alarm" the fact that lead
ing local democrats seem very anxious that
the people should vote to adopt the police
court law. Ii is possible that there may be
dynamite in it-for republicans. The local
influences which favor the law. for local
application. are of a rather suspicious sort
The people should scrutinze the enactment
and its probable operations aud effects very
closely. If it proves TO be a good thing. let
US have it. Otherwise not. We shall have
more to say on this matter, later on.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19
Beware of ScrohIa

scrofu;,d. Is probably more general than any
other disease. 1t is insidious in character,
and manfests itself in running sores, pustular
eruptions, boils, swellings, enlarged joints,
assesses, sore eyes, etc. Hoods Sarsapsrflla
e1pels all trace of scrofula from the blood
leaving it pure, enriched. and healthy.
"Iwas severely afflicted with serofula, and
over year had two running sores on my neck.
Took five bottles Hoods Sarsaparilla, and am
cured.' c. F.. LovEJoY, Lowell, Mass.
c. A. Arnold, Arnold. Me-, had scrofulous
sores for seven years, spring and fall. Hoods
SarsauariIla cured him
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19

Beware of agents who are chronic
thieves. We mean those who steal the
ideas of their competitors and then adyer-
tise them as their own. If they will steal
from their competitors they will steal from
you. All they want is an opportunity"
There are parrots in business who never
conceived an idea so they ape somebody's
else. X. +. Brandon Il Co. sell the Board
man Il Gray piano and the Palace organ
and never ape an idea or use chestnuts.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19

Tennessee democrats ignorantly and ac-
cidentalIy elected a man governor who
dares TO adopt and urge progressive educa-
tional ideas and measures, and now they
are very hot in the collar and are prancing
around dreadfully. How they are to help
themselves, they do not Vet know
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19

1t is an acknowledged fact, by a multi
tude of experienced witnesses, that DIR.
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Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19

DIR. Munhall. of indianapolis. who was
here visiting Mr.. Hannibal q. Hamlin. last
Fall. has been no ding very successful re-
vival meetings in Brooklyn, y. Y, at which
1000 pers s1nS have been converted. The
doctor is one of the most sensible and
practical evangelistS in America.